Invictus Victory Paco Rabanne 2021

You can hardly get past "Invictus" at the moment. Whether you have children in the advertised target group 15-25 around him or but colleagues, every second trainee, intern or working student smells of similar fragrance chords. And Paco Rabanne of course continues to ride this zeitgeist wave until it breaks ... or the person who has to smell it. Every year they delight us with either a "collector's edition" of the triumphant flacon or with a flanker. Now we are promised a particularly intense spicy variation of the "classic", which finally gives the wearer the end... ,#pfui, the final victory. After the predecessor has already dropped all panties, one wants to finally crack the high score of received compliments.

Black comes the familiar box now around the corner, black is also the content. Nix more of because of bling-bling. Discreetly black appears the cup, yet more reminiscent of an old, burnt-out cylinder head. If it weren't for the discreet golden "V", the well-known sign of victory. Those who celebrated the beloved silver bottle will have fun with this one, too. Heavy it is yes, the cup, there might be the plastic attachments around the atomizer but also like something more solid worked, then the overall impression would be right again.

A push on the atomizer and all expectations are met. A familiar maritime accord of citrus, lavender and peppery notes creates the usual freshness, unfortunately again in a somewhat artificial expansion stage. A green accord - is it lavender? - tries to play itself into the foreground, not at all wrong, but regrettably cannot assert itself. Because after just under an hour, the sweetish notes are already pushing in, vanilla and tonka are relentless. It becomes sweet, sticky and that for me again in a synthetic way, as one knows it unfortunately from cheap air fresheners from the drugstore and fragrance trees for the car. Here "Invictus Victory" tilts me in an unpleasant direction, which manifests itself over hours. After 10-12 hours the scent retreats into the skin and if you sniff the drydown, you'll be surprised to find that next to the fading sweetness, there's still something pleasantly spicy lurking, which was previously imperceptible and certainly not nameable. A pity actually, now that it slowly starts to become exciting and beautiful, it's already over again. Even in two further test sessions, I can't find out what it is. Is it the incense accord, which I could not perceive before? No idea.

While currently many designer fragrances with very decent durability and radiation for displeasure worries, "Invictus Victory" is here on the winning track. Good 10-12 hours he radiates his sweet notes very clearly and vehemently and even the next morning are still fragmentary remains to sniff. That is nowadays already once not to despise.

Maritime fresh notes and exuberant sweetness, the secret of success with the current target group. It is delivered and that is celebrated. For this a cup! At older semesters see this fragrance rather not. People are neither after these striking fragrances nor a trophy for the shelf. There must be room for quite different status symbols.

With me, "Invictus Victory" once again can not take a victory. Also for a certificate of honor it will not quite be enough. But no sooner did I take my A-levels in those days than certificates of participation were introduced. Yes, apart from all the precious metal, a certificate of participation is probably OK for a black trophy. On their back you can then make a tally sheet with the received compliments or note the numbers of the ladies, if the one does not immediately drag in your bower.